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MozFest — our annual gathering of global activists, technologists, policy makers and artists building a more human digital world — will call Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, home in March 2021.
Amazon announced that two-factor authentication (2FA) is now mandatory for all Ring users. The change comes on the heels of loud advocacy by consumers and organizations like Mozilla and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
Despite massive pressure to change its policies, Facebook just announced that it will continue to allow politicians to lie in paid ads and will not limit microtargeting (though users can now opt-out of political ads and custom ad targeting).
In 2019, we gathered in London to celebrate our 10th Anniversary MozFest — and our last in this city, as the Festival will be moving to a new location in 2020.
An eight-year-old girl heard strange noises coming from her bedroom. When she went to see what it was, she heard a man’s voice speaking to her through the Amazon Ring her parents had just installed in her room.
If you’ve been to MozFest before, you know it’s different from other conferences. If you haven’t… well, it’s hard to describe the whirl of people and ideas, those sparks of curiosity and connection, and the vibe — that buzzing, dynamic, positive energy. You can feel it spilling out of sessions into hallways and stairwells, fueling lunchtime conversations and late night karaoke adventures, propelling participants from session to session and floor to floor on a madcap journey of discovery and invention.
